Flutter /(?)/

Flut·ter

Flutter

v. t.
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
  2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
    Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.

Flutter

n.
  1. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
    The chirp and flutter of some single bird
    — Milnes. .
  2. Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.

Phrases & Compounds

Flutter wheel
a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.